Masters of Space

Jarvis Hilton of Terra, the youngest man yet to be assigned to direct any such tremendous deep–space undertaking as Project Theta Orionis, sat in conference with his two seconds–in–command. Assistant Director Sandra Cummings, analyst–synthesist and semantician, was tall, blonde and svelte. Planetographer William Karns—a black–haired, black–browed, black–eyed man of thirty—was third in rank of the scientific group.